News Articles in Building Better Communities

Ball State has earned Community Engagement Classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university is one of 361 institutions nationwide to earn the classification, which recognizes colleges and universities that demonstrate an institution-wide commitment to public service, civic involvement and community partnerships.

Ball State University’s Building Better Communities names Rushville, Jeffersonville, eastern Hamilton/southern Tipton counties and Greater Lafayette/Tippecanoe County as 2014 Primacy of Place Community Award winners.

Building Better Communities announced nine finalists of the 2014 Primacy of Place Community Awards Program, which recognizes Indiana communities making innovative strides in improving quality of life for residents, visitors and businesses.

Four new immersive learning seminars at Ball State's Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry will enhance visitors’ experience at the David Owsley Museum of Art, help launch a traveling museum called Freedom Bus, examine religion in comic books and produce a series of short documentaries on the use of rail-based mass transit systems.

Revitalizing part of economically hard-hit Elkhart County by making it a leader in green technology and manufacturing is the goal of an ongoing immersive learning project in Nappanee, a rural community also still recovering from a devastating tornado in 2007.

Four new fellows have been selected to lead semester-long seminars during the 2008-09 academic year at the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. Their immersive learning seminars will focus on sexual assault, virtual business, interdisciplinary business operations and honeybees.